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  <h1>Installation and Release Notes</h1>

  <p>Unless you installed a binary version of wxWidgets (e.g. under Linux
     using your distro's package manager), you will probably have to
     <strong>compile</strong> the wxWidgets library before you can start use
     it.</p>
  <p>Please read the platform-specific <tt>readme.txt</tt> and
     <tt>install.txt</tt> for how to do this:</p>

  <ul>
    <li>Readme:
      <a href="readme.txt"><b>General ReadMe</b></a>,
      <a href="msw/readme.txt">wxMSW</a> (<a href="msw/winxp.txt">wxMSW for WinXP</a>),
      <a href="gtk/readme.txt">wxGTK</a>,
      <a href="mac/readme.txt">wxMac</a>,
      <a href="cocoa/readme.txt">wxCocoa</a>,
      <a href="motif/readme.txt">wxMotif</a>,
      <a href="x11/readme.txt">wxX11</a>,
      <a href="univ/readme.txt">Univ</a>
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    <li>Installation:
      <a href="msw/install.txt">wxMSW</a>,
      <a href="gtk/install.txt">wxGTK</a>,
      <a href="motif/install.txt">wxMotif</a>,
      <a href="x11/install.txt">wxX11</a>,
      <a href="mac/install.txt">wxMac</a>,
      <a href="cocoa/install.txt">wxCocoa</a>,
      <a href="os2/install.txt">wxOS2</a>
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    <li><a href="changes.txt"><b>General change log</b></a></li>
    <li>Licence:
      <a href="preamble.txt">Preamble</a>,
      <a href="licence.txt">Licence</a>,
      <a href="licendoc.txt">Documentation Licence</a>,
      <a href="lgpl.txt">L-GPL</a>,
      <a href="gpl.txt">GPL</a>
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  <h1>Documentation</h1>

  <p>The wxWidgets manual is available in various formats; the availability of
     the following formats depends on what you've downloaded from the
     <a href="http://www.wxwidgets.org">wxWidgets website</a>:</p>

  <ul>
    <li><a href="doxygen/out/html/index.html">HTML</a></li>
    <li><a href="doxygen/out/wx.chm">MS HTML Help (CHM)</a></li>
    <li><a href="doxygen/out/wx.htb">wxHTML Help (HTB)</a></li>
    <li><a href="doxygen/out/rtf/refman.rtf">Rich Text Format (RTF)</a></li>
    <li><a href="doxygen/out/wx.pdf">Portable Document Format (PDF)</a></li>
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  <p>To use the manual in the <b>wxHTML Help</b> format (extension
     <tt>htb</tt>), you can use the <b>HelpView</b> application, compiling it
     from the <tt>utils/helpview</tt> folder in the wxWidgets
     distribution.</p>

  <p>Also note that beyond the wxWidgets manual there are various other
     <strong>resources</strong> which can help to learn wxWidgets
     programming:</p>

  <ul>
    <li><a href="http://www.wxwidgets.org">The wxWidgets website</a>: Contains
        FAQs, tutorials, info about the mailing lists, and in general
        everything related to the wxWidgets world is linked here.</li>
    <li><a href="http://wxforum.shadonet.com/">The wxWidgets forum</a>:
        Provides a discussion board about various wxWidgets topics (contains
        also <em>localized</em> forums).</li>
    <li><a href="http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/">The wxWiki</a>: A user-editable
        website with lots of tutorials, links to external tools, resources,
        etc.</li>
  </ul>

  <!-- TECHNICAL NOTES -->

  <h1>Technical Notes</h1>

  <p>Technical notes contains informations useful only to wxWidgets developers
     for the maintainance of the project:</p>

  <ul>
    <li><a href="tech/index.txt">Index of Technical Notes</a></li>
    <li><a href="tech/">Technical Notes</a></li>
  </ul>

  <p>Todo List for wxWidgets:</p>

  <ul>
    <li><a href="http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Development:_Todo_List">wxWiki Todo List</a></li>
    <li><a href="doxygen/out/html/todo.html">Documentation Todo List</a></li>
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  <h1>Demos</h1>

  <p>The following are fully-fledged applications which demonstrate some
     features of wxWidgets (for a list of the 70+ samples please look at the
     manual):</p>

  <ul>
    <li><a href="../demos/bombs">bombs</a>: minesweeper-like game.</li>
    <li><a href="../demos/forty">forty</a>: a great little card game by Chris Breeze.</li>
    <li><a href="../demos/fractal">fractal</a>: fractal mountains by Andrew Davison.</li>
    <li><a href="../demos/life">life</a>: the game of Life by J. H. Conway,
        implemented in wxWidgets by Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia.</li>
    <li><a href="../demos/poem">poem</a>: a little poetry display program.</li>
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